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Thanks to European Union (EU) regulations, I, an Irishman, was recently permitted to pursue a radiology fellowship in France. Though free movement of labor within the EU is legal, it is not necessarily easy — not least because of language barriers. I soon came to appreciate that language is the lifeblood of radiologists. I also discovered that much of what we think is determined by what we can say.

When I arrived, I was proficient enough in French to formulate a radiology report, though it involved a long, painful process of interpreting the images and mentally translating my thoughts into . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Bruzzi is an assistant professor in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

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